Julia Ioffe

Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe

Seeing videos of fathers saying goodbye to children, of soldiers telling a Russian battleship to "go fuck itself," I can't shake the feeling of déjà vu: it's like I've read all these stories already in WWII history books and memoirs. But now Russians and Ukrainians are enemies. — PolitiTweet.org

Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe

Putin is said to have been deeply affected by the way Muammar Qaddafi was killed. He watched the video of a bloodied Qaddafi dragged from his bunker, sodomized, and shot—over and over and over again.He thinks he is doing everything to avoid a similar fate. He's doing the opposite — PolitiTweet.org